Extraordinary Events

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 by Dan Carrington posted in Miracles | Comments Off

If I had a nickel for every time I heard a non-believer claim that "extraordinary events require extraordinary evidence" I would be independently wealthy. The irony of this is that usually it's the people who claim to be the most intellectually honest. In fact, these are the group who are quick to cast dispersions on Christians (or other theists) for committing the very crime for which they themselves are guilty. The man credited for this idea ...

Who Designed the Designer?

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 by Dan Carrington posted in Evangelism | Comments Off

Originally, I had wanted to write something about a quote that I had read from Richard Dawkins where he said something to the effect that, by all outward appearances, if we didn't know any better, it looks like life is the product of design. I couldn't find that quote, however, but instead found a large number of hits for a different quote from Dawkins. Over and over again, I found countless hits (and now, here is ...

Atheist or Agnostic?

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010 by Dan Carrington posted in Christian Living | Comments Off

In the past, I had often thought a certain way regarding the difference between someone who claims to be an atheist versus someone claiming to be agnostic. My understanding had been that atheism was a very arrogant claim. My understanding was that to be an atheist, one was claiming that there was certainly no God. It seemed to me that this was an impossible claim unless one knew first-hand of the existence of every single ...

Oral Tradition and the Telephone Game

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 by Dan Carrington posted in Evangelism | Comments Off

Today, I heard what was most likely the most laughable argument against the historicity of the gospels that I have ever heard. It was a comparison of the oral tradition which passed down the accounts of Jesus of Nazareth until they were written down against the game of "Telephone." Basically, the idea here was based on the idea that most scholars put the first written gospels at between 20 and 25  years after Christ's death, burial ...